I'm wanting to become a clinical psychologist and Get a psyd in clinical psychology. I was just curouis about what specific things a clinical psychologist can treat? From borderline personality disorders to sexual fetishes what could I do?
Uhm all mental disorders? Do you want a list of all the disorders?
Substance abuse/dependence Psychotic disorders: Schizophrenia, schizoaffective, brief psychotic, delusional Personality: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, boderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, obsessive compulsive Mood: Bipolar, Major depression, Dysthymia, Cyclothymia Anxiety: OCD, PTSD, Panic, Panic with Agoraphobia, Specific Phobias, Social Phobia Sexual: Hypoactive sexual desire, sexual aversion, female sexual arousal, male erectile, female/male orgasmic, premature ejaculation, dyspareunia, vaginismus, exhibitionism, fetishism, frotteurism, pedophilia, sexual masochism, sexual sadism, transvestic fetishism, voyeurism Somataform: somatization, conversion, pain, hypochondriasis, BDD, Dissociative disorders: amensia, fugue, DID, depersonalization Eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia Disorders usually first diagnosed in children: autism, ADHD, conduct disorder, oppositional defiance disorder
etc etc etc...
well there's a few more, but those are the basic ones. Remember, that not all issues are in the DSM. Family issues, couple issues, life issues, grief... The list could go on forever...
thank you very much,I just wanted a list. (:
